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| Title | Fortified station of Boonesborough |
| Date | unknown |
| Source | Thwaites, Reuben Gold. Father Marquette. New York: D. Appleton, 1914. |
| Category | Place |
| Type | Painting/Drawing/Etching/Other |
| Permission | Schingoethe Center for Native American Cultures, Aurora University |
| Info | The following sketch of the fortified station of Boonesborough will give the reader as an idea of the general character of "stations" for the protection of the surrounding settlements during Indian hostilities. It is taken from Judge Hall's "Sketches of the West." |
| More_Info | The outline of the inclosure was 250 feet from north to south and 165 feet from east to west. Besides the corner buildings, erected for the proprietors, teh stocade comprised twenty-eight log cabins, about 18 feet square, for the use of families pertaining to the colony. The outside wasll of each was built up close, and was made bullet-proof, without doors or windows, adn raised 12 feet in height, from which the roof, with a single slope, declined to the inner wall, 8 feet in high: the doores and window-openings were wholly within the stockade: the fronts of the cabins all faced the centeral area, or common yard. Two secure gateways, on opposite sides, gaurded the entrance |
| Themes | || Frontier Settlement || Native American Relations |
